Dr. Sheldon Tobe

Specialties: Nephrology

About The Speaker

Dr. Tobe trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the University of Toronto, then joined the Division of Nephrology at Sunnybrook. He is now a Professor of Medicine at both the University of Toronto and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, where he was the inaugural Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair of Aboriginal and Rural Health Research. In addition to a busy hypertension and nephrology clinical practice, he is also the University of Toronto Nephrology Postgraduate Fellowship Director. His main research interests are the Implementation Science of dissemination of cardiovascular focused clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Tobe was chair of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program from 2008 to 2012 and on the board of directors of Hypertension Canada until recently, and remains co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE). Dr. Tobe also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Hypertension Specialists Program. Dr. Tobe has had continuous peer reviewed funding for 25 years, has received many teaching awards and other career distinctions and has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and has led and participated in peer reviewed and investigator initiated multicentered international research collaborations.

Dr. Tobe’s goals as an educator are to stimulate in health care providers, excitement and interest in lifelong learning, related to cardiovascular chronic disease management to improve the vascular health of the people they care for.  His current research focus is implementation science to facilitate and evaluate the timely translation of guideline recommendations into best practice changes by updating the knowledge, skills and attitudes of health care professionals.